The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 22, 1937, Page 1

| JAP BOMBERS ROARING OVER TSINGT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7671. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1937. * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE -. MUCH BUSINESS [Harry Willard 'S il - » . - - . \ b b b - UNFINISHED BY END OF SESSION Administration Confident Much Valuable Work Has Been Done | WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—Mem- bers of Congress today left the Ad- ministration’s special session pro- gram up in the air and began a 12 day Christmas vacation deterring enactment of major legislation un- til next year. The sudden adjournment of the special session just at dusk yester- day, after the Senate passed the Housing Bill, 66 to 4, found none of President Roosevelt’s recommenda- tions actually written into law. Administration leaders contended the session served a valuable pur-, pose in finishing preliminary work on Farm, Housing and other Ad- ministration measures for which ap- proval will be sought at the regular session, convening January 3. Administration leaders originally intended to wind up the special ses- sion so that a joint conference com-| mittee could adjust differences in' the House and Senate Housing b)llst before adjournment. | Some members appointed to the' joint committee are among the many members who already have, Is Killed by Fglflng Tree Blind Presbyterian Lay- worker Crushed—In- juries Prove Fatal Harry Willard, blind layworker of the Presbyterian Church, died in the hospital at Chilkoot Barracks at 6 o'clock this morning as the re- sult of internal injuries received when he was crushed while falling a tree at Kluckwan yesterday morn- ing. Following the accident, Willard was rushed to the Army Post hos- pitalb ut had been crushed so badly that he was beyond medical or sur- gical aid Willard, who was born in Auk Village July 18, 59 years ago, Wwas left on orphan at an early age and through the efforts of the Rev. E. S. Willard, no relation, was placed in the training school in Juneau. When the local school was closed, Willard Was transferred to the Sitka training school where he received his education. In 1914, while doing road work, he was in an accident which caused his ultimate blind- ness. Willard, during his life time was engaged for 27 years as layworker and presided over churches at Kake and Kluckwan and for seven years, while the Rev. David Waggoner “STORK DERBY" Six-Foot Santa WILL IS LEGAL | Greets Children COURT DECIDES Of Ju[m_au Today Ontario Tril;n—_al Must Now | Decide Mother or Moth- ersWhoGe!$500,000 OTTAWA, Ont., Dec. 22.—The Su-| Heralding the arrival of Santa preme Court of Canada today up-|Claus this afternoon on the Christ- |held the eccentric will of Charles mas Ship Alaska, the strains of Vance Miller, instigator of Turon-i"sanm Claus is Coming” floated to's “Stork Derby.” lacross the gull-dotted harbor to Miller’s will provided that his|titilate the ears of a throng of Gas- estate, estimated in excess of halt|tineau Channel children awaiting a million dollars, go to the mother|on the dock the arrival of their or mothers giving birth to the most;December hero. children in Toronto between October| The gaily decorated showboat {31, 1926 and October 31, 1936. |sidled up to the wharf, threw snak- The Supreme Court of Canada left|ing coils of line ashore, the heavier to the Ontairo courts the task of hawse lines followed—and Santa determining the mother or mothers|Claus had officially arrived with entitled to the money. |his red nose, and his rotund “belly, A dozen or so women have filed|that shook for all the world like a claims for the money. {bowl of jelly!” The validity of the will was ques-| AS the last passenger stepped tioned by two relatives of the ec- ashore, the youngsters trooped en centric man claiming it was con-|masse to the side of 225 pound How- trary to public policy and morals, |ard Morgan S. Claus, who towered it |in his six feet of decorative furs, lover the smiling and the awestruck Master of Ceremonies Ken Cross, |silver-throated song warbler of the ! ‘Aluskn Line, took over and enter- tained direct from Santa Claus 9 [Roost which delighted a crowded | Throngs of Merry Young- sters Meet Their Hero on Steamer Alaska gone home, which necessitates post- was on mission work aboard the| ponement of final action until Jan- Presbyterian mission boat, Prince-| uary. |ton, had charge of the First Presby- | Farm legislation, which is the key terian Church in Juneau. He began | item of the program, is in the same‘hls work in Klawock in 1902 under | status as bills for housing legisla- the Rev. Waggoner and was associ-| tion and crop control which ha\'e;at,ed with him since that time. passed both houses and are now be-; Layworker Willard was held in fore a conference committee. {high respect by all persons who| The Wages and Hours bill was knew him in Southeast Alaska. He‘ salted away in the House Labor is survived by his widow, now at| Committee where it v:as sent by the Kluckwan, one daughter in Juneau, ——ro——— Hoonah, Mrs. John Shotter. A son was drowned about one year ago in | | | | | | | — | BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 22.| OC d P h ] nounces that word has been receiv- ondemn I'sycholog- ed here that the City of Hamburg, ical Recession Sea during a fog, has returned to (Hamburg and will probably be| istration advisors today said Presi- repairs dent Roosevelt will make an agres-, 5 The advices said the message will be based on the contention that the At a press conference, the Presi-! dent asserted that psychology ot Fishi"g Rights minority of public utilities. | The accusation followed a secret MOSCOW Dec. 22.—One source of Liberal ranks. The men with whom leaves Japanese vessels the right to| the President conferred were, Nor- continue fishing in Soviet Pacitic The President said the seven had pired December 31. The agreement | pledged themselves to unslackened has eased the tension developed ear- House in voting for further study. Mrs. Ernest Hayes, and another in| 'a boat accident. | President Roosevelt Will —The Baltimore Mail Line an damaged in a collision in the North WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—AdMIN- goopeq for two weeks for extensive sive bid for public confidence in his . January message to Congress. suvlel_]apa“esa business recession is largely psycho-: - Fact henewea on fear is being fostered by a large per-| centage of newspapers and a small conference with seven of his most Soviet-Japanese friction has been loyal supporters in the Senatorial removed by an agreement which | nis, LaFollette, Schwellenbach, Min- waters. ton, Pepper, and Green. | The agreement would have ex- application to New Deal activities. ‘ner when Russia postponed renewal. o - FEGHNER SAYS %(1 STock ofinnonsl CCG READY IN RS o quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11%, American Can |74%2, American Light and Power Training Such that They Should Be Turned Into /6%, Anaconda 32%, Bethlehem | Steel 62, Commonwealth and Sou- Soldiers Quickly MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 22. — Robert thern 2, Curtiss Wright 4, General Motors 32%, International Harves- lter 6¢%, Kennecott 38%, New York Fechner, national Civilian Conser- vation Corps director, said today that the United States has 300,000 |Central 19, Southern Pacific 217%, Cities Service 2, Pound $4.99%, | youths trained in CCC vamps ready to act as a volunteer army in an Bremner bid 2 asked 4. emergency. “While CCC men are not militar- DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 12855, down 1.43; rails 32.28, down 37; util-| ities 21.42, down .39. | | Section Digs Out |winter solistice brought abnor- aboard the land smiles—for who couldn’t help |but smile at happy Saint Nick and |childish glee! | Ida Dillon, Chief Musician of the Buned m Debrls |Alaska Steamship Company and |four talented young women aided While Asleep |Ken Cross and Santa Claus. Twenty FORLI, Dec. 22—The medieval vocal and instrumental numbers, castle afop of the cliff at the vil- running the whole gauntlet of lage of Civitella de Romagna, col-Christmas carols were played with lapsed during the night and tum-'a radio hookup. bled down on homes lying below,| The young women making the crushing possibly 20 persons while cruise are the former orchestra of they were asleep. |the S.8. McKinley, recently laid up Five bodies have been recovered for the winter. They are Monique up to noon today. g’rhomas. violinist and radip star Three persons, near the edge of‘who has been a member of the staffs the debris, have been taken out alive of KJR and KOMO and was for- after timbers were litted from them. merly with the Seattle Symphony Heavy rains are thought to have, Orchestra; Zita Dillon, who plays weakened the toundations of. the Piano, violin, accordion, xylophone castle, {marimba and was a member of |KOMO's staff several years; Helen . o | stewart, cello, a former member of Winter Solistice {the Mendelsohn trio who won a ln lnlenor Make’ i 10[ Music in New York, and Bea- Barometer Go nghltrice Nelson, who has given Alaska many vocal treats in years past. Christmas round trip tourists Alaska include Mert mally high barometer readings pre- Connors of the Northern Pacific saging clear and cold weather. Railway Company at St. Louis, and Readings here and at several other|Wwife; Miss Beatrice Jackson and points in the interior are the high-|C. E. Beldon and wife of Spokane, est ever recorded and the recording W. E. Rhodes and wife of San arms threatened to go off the baro-Francisco, Miss Iris Moore of grafs as the pressure continued | Seattle, C. G. Caldwell of Los An- higher, geles, William A. Gies of Spokane, Readings changed more than 200 M. D. King, ticket agent for the points in 36 hours attained a high|Alaska Steamship Company in of 3128 here and 3130 at Flat. |Seattle, and Art Stewart, assistant R general passenger agent of the M"v-e cnmfldia“ {Alaska Steamship Company with - e . Dies Suddenly THIRTY - FIVE ‘hendquarters in San Francisco, and wife. CULVER CITY, Cal, Dec. 22— Ted Healy, motion picture comed- DocT 8 WALK ian, aged 41, died suddenly today, One Physician Left to Care the M-G-M officials announced. The cause was an attack of the for 35 Patients in Hospital isocial hall. zfl A HE K I L L E D} There were presents and there were presents—and there were smiles | Residents of Italian Village BETHEL, Alaska, Dec. 22—The heart. His last picture, “Hollywood Hotel,” was previewed last night. Mrs. Heuly gave birth to a child only a few days ago. 5 INDIGTED, BODTLEGGING Huge Conspiracy Revealed —Government Defraud- ed of Large Sum NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Fifty-six persons have been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury on charges of operating a huge bootlegging con- spiracy that has deprived the Gov- ernment of at least $1,800,000 in tax- —County Supervisors have accepted the resignation of 35 doctors, and dentists on the visiting staff of the | General Hospital. B Only one doctor is left to care for 35 patients in the hospital. A spokesman for the doctors ac- cused the Supervisor of admitting county employees’ friends to the hospital free. “They are using the hospital as a political football,” the doctors said. e MISS MOORE VISITS scholarship at the Van Vliet School| SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal., Dec. 22.| ized in the ordinary sense of thg word, their training is such that they are about 65 per cent prepared for miflitary life,” he said. “There are 300,000 now in camp and with the two million trained before them could be turned into first class fighting men at an intsant’s no- tice.” From l@er Show ALBURQUERQUE, New Mexico, Dec. 22. — Southern New Mexico, from El Paso, Texas to the Arizona line, dug out today from under the heaviest snowfall in years, es during the past three years. | Defendants include three city po- {licemen and a former inspector of the Alcohol Tax Unit. - e, “RETURNING TO SITKA Mrs. William Ott and daughter Loretta are passengers on the North- land for Sitka, their hgme. i . i Miss Iris Moore, sister of Murs. Earl Clifford, arrived in Juneau aboard the steamer Alaska this af- ternoon. Miss Moore, whose home is in Se- attle, will visit during the holidays with the Cliffords at their Blomgren several trips to Alaska before. Apartments home. She has made|5,000 Mexican soldiers in 18 minutes REVOLUTION THREATENED BY JAPANESE Secret Arrests Made Early Today of Hundreds of Suspects TOKYO, Dec. 22.—Japanese police ! declare that secret arrests have been| made of over 300 suspected agitators and have bared activities of a “gen- eral revolution based on Commun- ism.” . One member of Parliament and) several University professors are held on suspicion of conspiring with Communists of the Pacific. The suspects were rounded up in a series of nation-wide raids early this morning. Many citizens appeared stunned at arrests and there is a widespread belief that this indicates strained international relations. Two women were seized, Baran- ess Ishimoto, widely known in the United States, and Taiko Hirabaya- shi, a writer of note. G.E.AKERSON PASSES AWAY Secretary to Former Presi- dent Hoover Dies in Washington NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—George E. Ackerson, 48, who served as Secre- tary to Former President Herbert {Hoover from 1928 to 1931, died last nigh's He had been in ill health for| some time and entered the hospll-! al about a month ago. Government Army | Takes Tereul in | | | Sevenifl_ay Fight { Insurgents Admit Defeat of | [ Focal Point on Aragon Line HENDAYE, Dec. 22. — Spanish Government forces, after seven days }or fierce bayonet and house to thouse battle, have captured Tereul, |focal point of Generalissimo Fran- cisco Franco's Insurgent line. Insurgent officers said they had been -advised by Franco’s head- quarters that Tereul had officially fallen to Loyalist troops. Official Government dlspawhes} indicated that part of the old quar-| ter of Tereul, known as ‘the “City| of Rock,” still remains in Insurgent hands. Only isolated bands of the Insur- gent Garrison are still resisting the Loyalist troops. Franco's officers have acknowl- edged the fact that Tereul had been considered the spearhead of Fran- co’s lower Aragon line. Seven days ago, Government troops threw a cordon of troops around the Insur- gent stronghold and attacked. BIG STRIKE IN MOJAVE DESERT Veteran Prospector Ap- pears with Fabulous Rich Gold Ore SAN BERNARDINO, Cal,, Dec. 22, —Joe Larrieau, veteran Mojave des- ert prospector, has appeared here with gold ore he said assayed as high as $1,000 a ton. He said the strike was made near Goffa, 200 miles east of here and almost on the Colorado River. - e HEINTZLEMAN RETURNS Regional Forester Frank Heintzle- man, who has been Outside in con- nection with preparing the Alaska development plan as a representa- tive of the Alaska Planning Com- mission, of which he is chairman, returned to his headquarters here on the Alaska. A R Seven hundred Texans defeated of the battle of San Jacinto in 1836. |Paris on August 27, | nternationaliy Known Diplomat, Frank Kellogg, Dies On E ST. PAUL, Minn,, Dec, 22.—Frank B. Kellogg, Internationally known diplomat, died at his home here at 7:28 o'clock last night. The former Secretary of State, World Court Judge, and co-author of the Kel- logg-Briand Peace Pact, would have been 81 years of age today. | Kellogg was stricken with pneu- monia last Saturday after several weeks' illness with cerebral throm- bosis. The Kellogg-Briand pact, in which 59 nations joined to renounce war as an instrument of national policy, was the highlight of Frank B. Kellogg's career, a line of achievement which took him from a ploneer Minnesota farm through the mutations of law and politics to successive reputations as a cor- poration ~lawyer, “trust buster,” United States Senator, Ambassador to Great Britain, Secretary of State, and, finally, Judge of the Perma- nent Court of International Jnatlcc( at The Hague. When Kellogg tendered his resig- nation from the International Tri- bunal on September 9, 1935, he wrote “finis” to public activities which em- braced a stretch of 57 years. Peace From Easter Kellogg, and Aristide Briand, “France's Apostle of peace,” whose names were joined in the anti-war| |pact, each gave the other credit ffor originating the idea. It grew (from a 1927 Easter message of good | will issued by Briand through The Associated Press to the American people in which he proposed that America and France torever re- nounce war upon each other. That message, pigeon-holed for months in the State Department at Washington, was hauled out of ob- scurity the following Christmas- tide at the behest of President Cool- idge when Jane Addams, Chicago's world-famous social worker, called it to his attention. For Perpetual Friendship It was translated at first into a Franco-American agreement for perpetual friendship, then blossomed |into a world-wide idea, was public- ized and pushed in various capitals until finally there was a rush to join in the declaration. With Kel- logg, wielding the first pen and Briand the second, the pact was signed formally by 15 nations at 1928. Later more than two score other govern- ments gave formal notification of their acceptance of the terms. World-Wide Acclaim The treaty brought world-wide ac- claim to the joint authors and award of the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize to Kellogg. But it didn’t halt war, nor did it check aggression. China, the United States, Great Britain and other powers cited it in vain when Japan carved Manchoukuo out of northeast China in 1931, and Ethio- pia, without effect, called attention to the fact that both she and Italy were signatories when the latter in- vaded the African monarchy in 1935. Critics of the treaty always said that it was futile because it “lacked teeth.” Pelitics by a Firm * Frank Billings Kellogg was born in Potsdam, N. Y. December 22, 1856, the son of Asa Farnsworth and Abigal Billings Kellogg. When he was 9, the family migrated to Min- nesota and with only rural school- ing as a foundation, he started to study law at the age of 19 in the office of a Rochester attorney, who paid him for combination clerical and janitor work by guiding his stu- dies. In 1877 Kellogg was admitted to the bar. The next year he was elected City Attorney of Rochester. In 1880 he formed a partnership with Burt W. Eaton, but clients were few and the firm went into politics. The two ran for the office of District Attorney in 1881, Kel- logg as a Republican and Eaton as a Democrat, because the salary ot $800 a year was needed for the firm. Kellogg won. On October 1, 1887, he moved to St. Paul, forming Davis, Kellogg, and Severance in\ partnership with Cushman K. Davis, then United States Senator, and Cordenio A. Se- verance. When Davis died in 1900, Kellogg became senior partner. Corporation Attorney They achieved a reputation as of Birthday | FRANK B. KELLOGG | |against the corporation at St. Paul !in June, 1906, | Then he was picked for similar ;work agamst the Standard Oil Com- {pany. This case came to a head be- |fore the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis on Novem- her 15, 1906, and again Kellogg won ¢ decision that the nation-wide cor- poration then existing was acting in restraint of trade. Its dissolution into companies chartered in New Jersey, Kentucky, Indiana and Cal- ifornia followed. High Finance Probe In 1907 Kellogg ferreted out the methods of high finance which Ed- ward H. Harriman, head of the Un- ion Pacific and allied lines, used in putting over a deal for the Chicago and Alton Railway. This work ev- entuated in dissolution of the Union Pacitic-Southern Pacitic merger. Kellogg also had a hand in anti- trust proceedings against the Inter- national Harvester Company and also had a hand in anti-trust pro- ceedings dgainst the International Harvester Company and what was known as the “tobacco trust.” From Senate to Cabinet In 1916 he turned to politics, ran for the United States Senatorship and was elected, serving the 1917- 23 term. The Farmer-Labor land- slide of 1922 in Minnesota defeated, him as a candidate for re-election. He went back to law practice for a year, then in 1924 was appointed by President Coolidge as Ambassa- dor to the Court of St. James's. He remained in London a year, rep- resenting the United States at a conference on Dawes plan proced- ure in August, 1924, and being cred- ited with breaking a deadlock which threatened to stymie that scheme for collecting and distributing war rep- arations from Germany. He was made Secretary of State when Charles Evans Hughes, after serving in the Harding-Collidge Cabinet, decided to resume private Ppractice when Coolidge’s own ad- ministration took otfice March 4, 1925. Kellogg's flair for diplomacy had full play in the four years he held the Cabinet.post. In addition to the multilateral anti-war pact, he guided negotiations that resulted in more than 80 international agree- ments, many of them providing for arbitration, conciliation and other peaceful means of settling disputes, between nations. High Court Judge Kellogg,” slight, stoop-shouldered, (Continued on Page Four) e KELLOGE IS MOURNED BY BRITISHERS Was Considered One of U. S. Most Popular En- voys to St. James LONDON, Dec. 22.—News of the ‘deam of Frank B. Kellogg, one time Ambassador from the United States |to the Court of St. James, has been received with regret in England, along with the death of the late corporation lawyers, yet Kellogg was' Ambassador Bingham, whose pass- picked by President Theodore Roos- ing is still mourned here. evelt for some of the Admmistra-f Kellogg was considered one of the tion’s most famous “trust busting.” most popular envoys to come from The first case was against the West- Washington since the World War. ern Paper Company, commonly call- During his brief service, 1923-25, the ed the “Western paper trust.” Kel- British press gave him two nick- logg, as special counsel for the gov-;names, the “Silent Diplomat” and ernment, won a decree of dissolution also the “Friendly Ambassador.” NEW ATTACKS ARE PLANNED BY JAPANESE Thirly Thpvsand Soldherk Leave Shanghai for Unknown Parts AMERICAN SHIPS GO TO NEW WAR CENTER British Are Strengthening Forces—Another Protest Is Sent to Nipponese SHANGHAI, Dec. 22-—Japanese bombers today roared over the in- dustrial seaport of Tsingtao where three United States warships stood by to evacuate 300 Americans, If necessary. The United States Consular au- thorities have been advised that the Americans will probably leave, as fears have increased that the Jap- anese will attack the city in retafl- iation for the destruction of the Jap- anese cotton mills by Chinese troops. It is reported here that 30,000 Jap~ anese soldiers in the Shanghai area have left for an unknown destina- tion. Eighty transports are ready for additional troops and both the dispatch of the troops and the “stand by” orders of the transports gave impetus to fears that Tsingtao as well as other coastal cities will be assked very soon, BRITISH SHIPS MOVE LONDON, Dec. 22—The British War office announced this morn- ing that the British garrison at Hong Kong has been strengthened as the Government dispatched the sixteenth protest made to Japan since the outbreak of the Far East- ern conflict. Sir Robert Leslie Cragie, British Ambassador at Tokyo has been in- structed to protest to the Japanesé for the attack and seizure of the Chinese ‘customs and vessels in the territorial waters off the British colony at Hong Kong on December 11. The British troopship Dunera is prepared to leave Southampton to take aboard the Second Battalion of the Royal Scouts at Bombay. The Royal Scouts will go to Hong Kong, which is near Canton, and which is to be attacked by the Japanese shortly in a major offensive in South China. ———— PLAN BOYCOTT, JAPAN INPORTS Women's Committee to Call on Shop Owners in Los Angeles LOS ANELES, Cal, Dec. 22— The Womens' Committee of the American League for Peace and De- mocracy, said about 50 members, wearing lisle stockings, will canvass stores in the fashionable Wilshire district, asking shop owners to dis~ play placards reading: “We Do Not Carry Japanese Imports.” CELEBRATION UNDERGROUND Iron Ore Miners Stage Unique Activities Be- neath Earth’s Surface ISHPEMING, Mich.,, Dec. 22.— Iron ore miners in the Marquette Range, held a unique Christmas party last night, 1400 feet under- ground. Evergreens chopped from Michi- gan's northern woods, decorated the center of the activities and husky miners joined in singing “Stlent Night” and other Yuletide chorals,